Archive for the 'Music Business' Category


Steve Miller On The Beatles

When the bat cracks and the ball’s moving towards Jeter, he doesn’t run through the fundamentals in his brain, hell, he doesn’t think at all, he just picks up the ball and throws it to first base, just like that. Well, not exactly.  You see he’s got decades of practice.  He’s just acting upon that […]

Virtual Goods

Would you pay a dollar to evidence you were at Lady GaGa’s gig at the Cutting Room? Hell, I didn’t even know she performed at the Cutting Room.  I had to read the "New York" profile  to find that out. Growing Up Gaga Music has forever been about hipsterism.  Knowing who’s good and bad and […]

Apple Buys EMI

And the Beatles join the iTunes Store just in time for Saturday’s iPad launch. The deal…  Just like with Apple’s purchase of Lala, no hard numbers have been released.  But both Citi and Terra Firma are happy.  Citi gets its money back, and Guy Hands gets to save face, Terra Firma’s covenant breaches become irrelevant, […]

Solutions

I get e-mail every day giving me shit for not offering solutions. It’s very simple.  Make good music and don’t rip people off. I know, I know, you want it to be more complicated than that, you want multiple entry points, you want to believe it’s about Twitter or Facebook or Spotify or… Usually, anything […]